Foxes in the Henhouse

Lobbyists in the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations.

As we collectively grapple with how to deal with these issues, multiple critical environmental negotiations are taking place at the end of 2024, including the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) CoP16, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) CoP29 in Azerbaijan and the final round of negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty in South Korea.

However, these meetings are likely to be marred by the presence of those who are not seeking solutions, but who are instead are part of the problems. The huge influx of corporate lobbyists into multilateral environmental negotiation spaces represents a clear conflict of interests and an existential threat to international policymaking